Strawberry Aqueduct and Collection System, Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project: documents and correspondence, 1979

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"up" According to the membership brochure, I've been moved to Co-Chairman, national level. This is fine. As you can see from the accompanying letter - this is whsre I am operating now. It is a needed area of operation. And, Utah needs all the authority in CRCUP it can get. Apparently, Beth Kaeding is now Utah C:=-Chairman. Good! I would like to see you become labelled as Counsel to the CRCUP group, to Sierra Club and to Audubon on water issues. You develop your own area of expertise and importance for that. Many of the water issues have legal bases. Also be / labelled Water Authority. I suggest you work out an arrangement to meet at lunch' on some regular basis with Kinghorn and Kapaloski and the three of you gear Barbara in on the following: £ O 4 I - water supply and management alternatives in Utah - EPA's authority on implementing the Clean Water Act, its ! methods and its problems in Utah - Federal laws and State laws and regulations supporting up-dated water management. - Assisting Agencies such as Fish & Wildlife Service and State Div. Wildlife Resources for whom they act. Also, the Forest Service. Stake out your area of expertise, get help where you can, inform CRCUP of your intentions, and feed into CRCUP thinking and public meetings - this information. CRCUP has to be a democratic group. Decision-making has to be broad-based and responsibilities delegated. Establish your identity and responsibilities within this group and carry them out! The present thrust of CRCUP efforts is too limited. It is confined within parameters of environment and cost with only limited presentation of the whole basis for our efforts - that of Water Policy and Laws. The Haws meeting is a beginning - but only exposing the tip of the iceberg..And there is no c^ne citizen, expert able to publicly take advantage of this. ~ " " Fred doesn'trun CRCUP. I don't run CRCUP. It was intended to be a group effort based on identifying the real underlying issues and developing strategy for dealing with these. This really hasn't taken" place yet. But, as I say, CRCUP is going through growing pains. The CUP must be stopped. The CAP must be stopped. The California project is temporarily stopped. This is the goal of EPC and NRDC and EDF. It is not yet spelled out as the goal of CRCUP. Modifying CUP is ultimately no answer for western water management. Please discuss this with Gerry and Lee. I've already written fehem along lines of improving CRCUP action. And under­stand, I am not putting down CRCUP.. or Fred. The problem is lack of experience in environmental activism. - Caution: In a State like Utah where the Sierra Club is- anathema get your points across publicly without being strident. Lose battles, if necessary, in order to win the war! Do write me. Dorothy -Woujfyd^ ^ *£ ^ /